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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Rowe retrieved?
(a) Someone decides they want to save him.
(b) Someone notices he is not Vietnamese.
(c) Someone hears him speaking in English.
(d) Someone decides they want to take a Vietnamese prisoner.

2. Why does Rowe want the Vietcong prisoners to be sentenced to this?
(a) So the Vietcong will consider letting him go.
(b) So he can see some retaliation being taken out on the Vietcong.
(c) So the Vietcong do not feel the need to execute American prisoners in retaliation.
(d) So the Vietcong will see the power of the U.S.

3. Who initially sees Rowe?
(a) A doctor.
(b) Army personnel.
(c) A nutritionist.
(d) A psychiatrist.

4. Rowe is continually pressed to do what?
(a) Tell the Vietcong of the American Army's location.
(b) Write a statement siding with the National Liberation Front.
(c) Translate for them.
(d) Commit suicide.

5. What threatens the camp?
(a) Disease.
(b) Famine.
(c) Fire.
(d) The American Army.

6. He says that the men aboard the chopper are kept busy during that initial ride, doing what?
(a) Listening to him.
(b) Opening cans of c-rations for Rowe.
(c) Talking to him.
(d) Answering his questions.

7. How do many of the Vietnamese people feel about Rowe?
(a) Curious.
(b) Angry.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Anxious.

8. Where is Rowe's mother?
(a) In the car.
(b) With his father.
(c) Inside the house.
(d) At church.

9. Why do the men buy raw brown sugar?
(a) It is easy to come by.
(b) It is cheap.
(c) It is not considered food.
(d) It tastes good.

10. What does Rowe know about Jim?
(a) He has made plans to escape.
(b) He has started to decline to death.
(c) He has stopped eating.
(d) He has been giving information to the Vietcong.

11. How quickly is Rowe recognized?
(a) Very slowly.
(b) Not at all.
(c) Very quickly.
(d) Not very quickly.

12. What is Rowe told he can buy with the money he earns from his excess fish?
(a) Sugar and pepper.
(b) Garlic and pepper.
(c) Sugar and salt.
(d) Sugar and tea.

13. With his first money, what does Rowe buy?
(a) Sugar and salt.
(b) Garlic and pepper.
(c) More nets and sets.
(d) Sugar and tea.

14. Rowe arrives at a hospital and is allowed to talk to whom by phone?
(a) His mother and father.
(b) His friends.
(c) His wife.
(d) His children.

15. Rowe learns that he has been promoted to what during his absence?
(a) Lieutenant.
(b) Sergeant.
(c) Major.
(d) General.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rowe do to one of his captors?

2. Rowe knows that there might come a point at which he is released but hates the thought of what?

3. When Rowe is asked by a news reporter if he'd been beaten, he says that he wasn't "mistreated severely" and then says that he can't go into it further. Why?

4. What prompts a flood of emotion, including tears, for Rowe?

5. What is happening to Jim?

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